hush, hush (Hush, Hush Book #1)

This book was possibly the first supernatural love story I actually cared about. But that little alarm in the back of my brain kept on screaming "TWILIGHT! TWILIGHT!" I'm happy that this was a love story, but the romance was really kept to a minimum.

I just started randomly browsing in the Young Adults section and thought this one was interesting. I swear that in my library, the majority of the young adult section is useless garbage. Anyone who lives near me and goes to the same library can agree.

Here's the cover. I need to draw the person on the cover before I return the book. ((Hey, I'm too busy to draw anymore. It's a miracle that I can write on here at all))

Nora Grey has always lived a normal life. That is, until the day that the mysterious and elusive Patch waltzed into her life. He seems to know exactly what to say and do to attract and repel Nora. In an instant, her life is turned upside down. 

Turns out, this boy with a gambling addiction and a dark past has an even worse secret no one can ever know. And Nora holds the key to his heart where it lies. Unknowingly, she frees that side of him that he has kept suppressed for so long out of fear that he'd hurt someone again.

Nora's best friend Vee has made friends with two equally strange and elusive boys, one who transferred to their school and the other who still goes to a very exclusive school called Kinghorn Prep. She has hopes that they will notice her, but they seem to like Nora more, especially the one named Elliot.

After doing some research on Elliot, Nora comes to the conclusion that he was held responsible for the death of a girl at his school who was his girlfriend at the time. But he was eventually found innocent when police officers found a suicide note in her room. They just believed that the cause of death was suicide and let Elliot go.

Upon finally figuring out Patch's secret some days later, Nora is put into panic mode. Fallen angels have to sacrifice a girl Nephilim in order to get a human body. And a human body seems to be what Patch wants most, considering that he can't feel anything in his current body.

Will Nora survive the imminent danger of death and still be true to her one and true Patch?

My thoughts-

A really good read for fans of Twilight and The Mortal Instruments. I was never a Team Jacob or Team Edward person, but Jace always seemed cool to me.
There isn't really a love triangle until the second book, so I guess I won't be able to elaborate on that. And then, the love triangle is fairly one-sided, so it's quite obvious who Nora is going to end up with at the end of the series.
The book is fairly thick and the whole beginning is a little boring until it picks up speed with the introduction of Elliot and Jules.
There are no real flaws in the plot or the storytelling, but I found it a little weird at certain times when Patch would just pop out of nowhere and do amazing things to save Nora...

Okay, so this topic may be trivial and weird, but I found it a little strange how Nora's mom didn't really care where she was, who she was with or what she was doing. Any mom who had their husband brutally murdered would want to know every little detail about where their child is going and what she is doing. Although Nora does make smart choices all throughout, I just thought that her mom was always out of the way and basically let Nora do whatever she wanted.

If you enjoyed this one, there are three more books in the series- Crescendo, Silence and Finale. I highly recommend reading Crescendo and Silence, but I am currently in the process of reading Finale and don't know how the story will end...

Happy Reading!!